Entry № 653 · Greek origin

Angela Angela — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AN-jeh-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Messenger (Angela Merkel, 16-year German Chancellor)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "messenger (angela merkel, 16-year german chancellor)".

Angela is from the Greek angelos (messenger, angel).

Messenger (Angela Merkel, 16-year German Chancellor) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Angela
Transliteration
Angela
Pronunciation
/ ˈæn.dʒə.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Angela stands.

Angela does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Angelas before her.

Real people
Angela Merkel
German Chancellor.
born 1954
Angela Davis
American political activist.
born 1944
In fiction
Angela
Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies.

Names connected to Angela.

The number behind Angela.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Angela reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.